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Discover cutting-edge thinking and deep insights to understand the forces shaping the future of business and society.

Provocative Scenarios

We asked Google’s NotebookLM to host an in-depth discussion.

Watch: Futureworld launches office in Europe

Video highlights of the launch event at Chateau Amsterdam.

The future is never urgent

A message from our now-retired founder Wolfgang Grulke that was as prescient twelve years ago as it is today.

Join Futureworld Co-Founder, Anton Musgrave, and futurist, Gerd Leonhard, as they take you on a journey to 2030. With a combined 50 years’ experience as futurists, keynote speakers, business strategists, and entrepreneurs, Anton and Gerd will share their insights – and foresights – on a range of topics each week.

Futureworld Beyond

On 16 March 2023, we were joined by leading international futurists and industry experts at an exclusive event where we took guests on a deep

10 rules for new capital markets

Louis Geeringh summarises the new rules for capital markets – from the webinar with Colin Iles.

AI is the Quantum killer app

Since the first error-corrected quantum computer chips began to emerge in 2025, the era of quantum computing has advanced in...

DeSci powers fusion breakthrough

For the last five decades at least, fusion power has always been a decade away from becoming reality. Nuclear fusion...

Emojis: The language only AI can read

Dr. Jens Limhurst took off his Emersio goggles and looked at the sequence of nine simple and commonly used emojis...

Space crash kills Starlink

You might say it was inevitable. With 50,000 satellites and over 100,000 trackable pieces of debris, Earth’s orbital zone was...

New life for the New Year

In 2024 the first baby was born using Fertilo, an ovarian support cell (OSC) technology that matures eggs outside the...

Christmas gift of the year

Little Johnny took the shoebox-sized present from Santa and shook it. No rattle, no thuds… not a single sound! He...

Auto dealer of the year: Amazon

Now that most cars are electrically powered, software defined, and app controlled, it’s not surprising that new vehicles are mostly...

Robots are the new desert warriors

It’s 2035, and the UAE leads the world in robots per capita, transforming its economy into a global powerhouse. Robots...

Old before his time

Thomas Schutz woke up at 6am, but rather than getting up as usual, he stayed in bed, feeling stiff and...

You’ve been cancelled!

Stina Svensson looked at her ID, her passport, the title deed for her house, her latest tax return… all laid...

Bitcoin surges as the Dollar shines

When the west applied sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, and China suffered under the imposition of US...

Making China great again

The saying “hard times create great people” applies to companies and nations too. When the United States imposed restrictions on...

Just vote for me, AI

Left, right, center, liberal. Partisan, non-binary, socio-democratic. Populist, humanist, transhumanist, fundamentalist, radical. It’s all so confusing, and I don’t know...

The FAANGs lose their bite

Since the US and EU regulators pulled the fangs out of the FAANGs in a coordinated move two months ago,...

Focusing on the Future

Over the past 20 years, Futureworld has published over a thousand Mindbullet scenarios, many of which have future datelines that...

Starlink owns the skies

Elon Musk famously told us that he developed the Starship mega rocket to “take humanity to Mars,” but perhaps that...

Understanding the Future of Agriculture

Agriculture is the lifeblood of human civilization, responsible for feeding a global population that is expected to reach nearly 10...

A phone? Dude, that’s so last decade!

Smiling, Tony Sanches walked through the hotel lobby to the elevators and looked at the small screen. “Welcome Mr. Sanches....

The AI bubble bursts

The advent of ChatGPT and other generative AI models fueled a tech boom that benefited giants like Microsoft and Google,...

Beam me up, Larry!

Jacqueline Dubois tore open the small box from Google LastMile, placed the even smaller black box on the table in...

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